Parallel Supercomputing: Past, Present and Future

From the early days of the industry, supercomputers have been pushing the boundaries of IT, identifying the key barriers to overcome and experimenting with technologies and architectures that are then incorporated into the overall...

Aug 5, 2013

Meet Computational Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Zamboni

Computational Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Zamboni joined Argonne in 2010. She is a climate scientist, working to improve climate predictions. Her research uses Argonne supercomputers to quantify uncertainties about rainfall simulations and increase our understanding about cloud physics. A...

Aug 1, 2013

Argonne Releases More Details on Argo OS for Exascale

Argonne National Laboratory is working on a prototype Exascale operating system called Argo. This week, Argonne announced it has been awarded a $9.75 million grant from the DOE Office of Science to lead this multi-institutional research project.

Thirteen new projects pursuing ‘high-risk, high-payoff’ simulation research in energy-mission areas and national emergency mitigation at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) have been awarded 809 million supercomputing core-hours by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced...

Jul 18, 2013

Senator Says U.S. Congress Doesn't 'Get' Supercomputers

Supercomputers are clearly important to the ability of the U.S. to compete on the global stage, but some members of Congress don't understand that, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin said at the recent dedication of Mira, the IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer installed last year at the Argonne National...

Jul 17, 2013

DOE appeal: Breaking exaflop barrier will require more funding

Department of Energy-funded supercomputers were the first to crack the teraflop- (1997) and petaflop (2008) barriers, but the United States is not likely to be the first nation to break the exaflop barrier without significant increases in DOE funding.

That projection is underscored by...

Jul 16, 2013

US Unveils Green Supercomputer

CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago is home to one of the newest, fastest, most efficient supercomputers in the country, called MIRA. But despite the new equipment, lawmakers are concerned...